The paper investigates the M/M/s retrial queueing system with servers prone to breakdown
and with voluntary service. During a phone call, if the caller finds a free call line, then it …

The imbalances between supply and demand in an urban rail transit system have received
extensive attention. Addressing these imbalances by controlling the movements of …

To face the booming passenger flow volumes, the optimization of pedestrian facilities plans
and the associated staff assignment plans in the transfer station, including adjusting …

Merging behavior is a complex crowd movement pattern caused by certain architectural
features and has triggered serious crowd accidents worldwide. It is not uncommon to find …

Turning junction of subway station is bottleneck being prone to congestion. Speeds of
passengers fluctuate in these zones, which will diminish walking efficiency of the …

As bottlenecks of walking facilities in subway stations, merging passages are prone to
congestion when passengers walk and evacuate under daily operation and emergency …

Accurately modeling dynamic traffic circulation systems, such as roads for vehicles and
corridors for pedestrians, is of great importance for the planning, design, operation and …

Congestion downgrades the moving speed of passengers in trains and platforms. This in
turn affects congestion. That is, the moving speed of passengers interacts with congestion. It …

Corridor with corner may be the potential bottleneck in subway station, and walking behavior
of passengers around corner is random. In this study, walking process of passenger around …

In this paper, we develop a control model for pedestrian counter flow to avoid blocking in
bidirectional corridors. Considering the conflict between two streams, we formulate a …